Harvard outranks Yale (and why the USNWR rankings are unconstitutional)
On the occasion of the U.S. News and World Report’s publication of its 2010 law school rankings, I note again their dubious nature. Of course, the rankings have been assailed from all sides. One argument I am quite astonished not to have seen advanced before, however, is that they are clearly and utterly unconstitutional. Oh, yes. Fifty-nine years ago, the United States Supreme Court handed down the true variables by which to compare law schools: read on
My scheduled GTD tasks
The same weekend I switched to Things for task management, I added a new idea for a blog post, due right about now: why not blog my repeating tasks? As I explained a year and a half ago in a thread on AskMeFi, I have “a lot of little ‘life maintenance’ things I should be remembering to do on a regular schedule [but] that I wouldn’t normally think/remember to do . . . .” That thread generated a lot of creative ideas, and I think I’ve come up with a few good ones since then. Without further ado: read on
Status
- This guitar is going to survive this airline trip if it kills me. 7 hrs ago
Asides
- This photo sums up my 2L year pretty well. #
- Somehow I'd never seen this interview with Jim O'Rourke and Chris Brickley on recording Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. For a Wilco /O'Rourke enthusiast and wannabe studio geek like me, this stuff is irresistible. #
- It's exam time, which can only mean that I'm blowing my evenings tabbing out more songs. This one is so simple as to teeter on the brink of embarrassing, but my devotion to catchy tunes knows no shame. In fact, I'm surprised nobody's posted a version before now. I give you No Culture Icons, by the Thermals. #
- Okay, okay. This third, fictional volume of Ackerman's We the People trilogy duology is an April Fool's joke. Still... I'd read it. In fact, I really enjoy legal arguments made through the medium of fiction. Recall, e.g., Dickens' 976-page parable of civil procedure reform. #
